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Reviewer:Gustavo Jobim -
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September 24, 2006 Subject:
Back to 1883
The music from Phrozenlight's 2006 release Time Travel is great as background music for daily activities such as: reading e-mail, scanning recent pen and pencil drawings - as I'm doing right now - and others.
However, this is not simply background music, as it's full of little details that grab your attention as you explore the two lengthy tracks - the reason why I took 10 minutes to read one short e-mail message.
Those small sound events that permeate the two half-hour tracks are one of the reasons to go back and listen to the album again, on earphones, for total immersion. But the main reason is that this is a rich, very carefully woven tapestry of sounds, which are proof that this is a true artist, concerned about his work.
The sounds remind me strongly of "Wahnfried 1883", side B of Klaus Schulze's 1975 classic album "Timewind". "Time Travel" can also be easily related to Tangerine Dream's early 1970s ambient pieces.
"Space-Time Continuum", the first track, being not as dramatic as "Wahnfried 1883", feels closer to Tangerine Dream's 1972 "Zeit", with its breathy sounds nodding to Schulze's 1977 "Mirage".
The second track, "The 4th Dimension", with the constant presence of Mellotron-like strings and eventual bird-like cries, would be at home as a continuation of Tangerine Dream's "Atem", from 1973. In fact, if I didn't know this was from Phrozenlight, I would think I was listening to a lost Tangerine Dream 1973 concert. However, being a little bit more dramatic than the first track, I enjoyed this one more.
So if you're looking for brand-new originality, you'll not find much of that in this release, specially in the second track. However, the beautiful, carefully crafted soundscapes from Phrozenlight's "Time Travel" should please fans of the style, and has got me very interested in his work, as I'm not very familiar with it.